Security Bulletin: IBM Automation Decision Services November 2023 - Multiple CVEs addressed

Summary

IBM Automation Decision Services is vulnerable to denial of service attacks in third party and open source used in the product for various functions. See full list below. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-46233
**DESCRIPTION:**Brix crypto-js could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the use of a weak cryptographic hash algorithm. By utilize cryptographic attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269753 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34034
**DESCRIPTION:VMware Tanzu Spring Security could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when using "" as a pattern in the configuration for WebFlux. By using a specially crafted configuration, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass pattern matching rules.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261126 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34035
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Security could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when the application uses requestMatchers(String) and multiple servlets. By using a specially crafted configuration, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an authorization rule misconfiguration issue.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261127 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-40167
**DESCRIPTION:**Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of the HTTP/1 request header. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-41900
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authentication validation when using the optional nested LoginService. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266185 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43494
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by not excluding sensitive build variables when filtering builds in the build history widget. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain values of sensitive variables used in builds, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266551 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43495
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the caption constructor parameter of ExpandableDetailsNote. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266553 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43496
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw with creating a temporary file in the system temporary directory with the default permissions. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266554 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43497
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when processing file uploads using the Stapler web framework. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access to the Jenkins controller file system to read and write the files before they are used.
CVSS Base score: 3.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266555 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43498
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when processing file uploads using the MultipartFormDataParser. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access to the Jenkins controller file system to read and write the files before they are used.
CVSS Base score: 3.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266556 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-36479
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an errant command quoting flaw in the org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266435 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-39151
**DESCRIPTION:**Jenkins weekly and LTS are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261617 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5072
**DESCRIPTION:**JSON-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a bug in the parser. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268485 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-4853
**DESCRIPTION:**Quarkus could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper sanitization of requests. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the security policy altogether.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266748 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-33503
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw due to catastrophic backtracking. By sending a specially-crafted URL request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203109 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

**IBM X-Force ID:**256137
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML Jackson Core is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the StreamReadConstraints value field. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256137 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Automation Decision Services 23.0.1:
Interim fix 005 is available :

• ibm-ads-1.1.5 CASE Download link
• ADS 23.0.1 Public Git Repository

Workarounds and Mitigations

None